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In this Issue: STB – End of Year Promotion 2016 Very first Newsletter? Yes, Volume #1 Ask Dr. SCSI – Testing Enclosure Vibration using STB NVMe Interest? Share your input! What is Performa?   STB – End of Year Promotion 2016 Purchases now until the end of the year are qualified to receive 2 years of […]

STB Suite version 9.3 Release Notes   DMM: Fixes/Changes: When retrieving Log Page/Parameter data for test thresholds that longer than 4 bytes, correctly retrieve all bytes Use only the low-order byte of SMART att 194 (temperature) due to some Hitachi drives having unidentified data in the other bytes. Update SATA SMART attribute definitions – added: […]

Introduction A new feature in STB Suite is a DMM Purge Test Step. There are three types of Purge which can be accomplished with this Test Step 3-Pass DoD5220 type This purge type will run a 3-pass DoD 5220 style Purge. This type of Purge can be run on any type of disk (SAS/SCSI/FC, SATA, […]

STB Suite version 9.1 Release Notes STB Original Mode Bug Fixes, Updates, & Changes   Updated SATA SMART attribute definitions Buffer File Operations->Read File Determines the size of the file being read and adjusts the Data Size setting automatically Centers the main window on start Updated SMART and IDENTIFY information to include all ACS-4 changes […]

In this Issue: Testing New Technologies (NVMe, PCIe, and more) Find answers you need at STBSuite.com Ask Dr. SCSI – Write-Cache – Things are too slow! Finding and Fixing Log Jams Where do you get your information? (4 question Survey – free mouse pad) SCSI Toolbox, LLC on LinkedIn     Testing New Technologies Introduction […]

In this Issue: Introduction to Command Queuing Advanced Stop-On-Error options in DMM Ask Dr. SCSI – Can I modify an existing test sequence so I don’t have to start over? Coming soon, the AME – Automated Manufacturing Engine! Ready to receive your 8.7.1 Performa upgrade email? What is Queue Depth, Command Queuing, and how do […]

In this Issue: New SSD and SSS Preconditioning Test in DMM Thank you, MAM! Ask Dr. SCSI – What is coming in the STB Suite v8.7? Receiving your Performa upgrade emails? SSD/SSS Preconditioning Test in DMM In the next release of STB Suite, the Disk Manufacturing Module (DMM) will contain a new test – the […]

In the next release of STB Suite, the Disk Manufacturing Module (DMM) will contain a new test – the “SSD Preconditioning” test.  A picture below shows the new test in the array of test choices: To “precondition SSS or a SSD” is a fairly complex process, a process whose goal is to determine if the […]

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